LSM BrickHouse Family Ministries

11/21/2019

𝗟𝗦𝗠 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲
Doug Isch and Adam Carroll provide an update on BrickHouse Family Ministries and BrickHouse Farms Self-Serve Farm Store, which merged with Loving Shepherd Ministries this year. Do you know an adoptive or foster family? LSM now offers free counseling services to area families that are helping foster and adopted kids achieve their full, God-given potential. We look forward to addressing needs in our own backyard with LSM’s unique Trauma Healing Program and our faith-based Continuum of Care. We’ll give updates as this venture unfolds!

11/20/2019

𝗟𝗦𝗠 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀
Did you know that LSM BrickHouse Family Ministries offers free counseling for foster and adoptive families? If you or a family you know is looking for a service like this, please contact Adam Carroll, LMFT-A, adam@loving-shepherd.org, while we have staff availability. We’d love to connect with you!

11/19/2019

𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗟𝗦𝗠

BrickHouse started serving vulnerable young men in Indiana back in 2006. The ministry includes our property in downtown Bluffton, as well as our 40-acre farm, which contributes to the program's long-term sustainability. Now that we've merged with Loving Shepherd Ministries, we're excited about this opportunity to bring LSM's model to those we serve, helping foster and adoptive families in our own backyard reach their God-given potential through Mentorship Training, Life Skills, and Trauma Healing. Find out how you can pray for this exciting new transition on our new webpage: bit.ly/lsmbrickhouse!

06/03/2019

The sun is shining, it’s a beautiful day!

“The LORD by wisdom founded the earth, By understanding He established the heavens. By His knowledge the deeps were broken up And the skies drip with dew.” ~Proverbs 3:19-20

A reminder that God created this whole thing we call life. God has a plan, and God can be trusted.

05/13/2019

Parenting thought: As parents the most important lesson we teach is the example we set.

05/10/2019

From Executive Director Adam Carroll:
Ever since the BrickHouse Strong Murph Challenge I’ve been thinking about fitnessing (made up word), faith, and resiliency. So here’s this past Sunday’s workout and some of the thoughts that went along with it:
Marathon Mow
For time, push mow my backyard because it’s too wet for the riding mower.
Time: 2 hours and 6 minutes.

During my “Marathon Mow” I was spending some time thinking about resiliency. What is it? And can it be developed or are some people born more resilient than others?

According to Wikipedia, resiliency is the “ability to cope with crisis and to return to pre-crisis status quickly”. But is this even a good definition? Does physical resiliency contribute to emotional and mental resiliency? And what role does faith play?

Over the next few weeks I (along the teacher at BrickHouse Family Ministries, Penny Sue Cole) will be exploring these questions, and I’ll be thinking out loud about what we are finding about the subject. Hopefully along the way something will be helpful.

04/21/2019

04/15/2019

A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE WELLS COUNTY FOUNDATION LIGHT GROUP FOR SUPPORTING BHFM AND THEIR ENDEAVORS TO BRING FAMILIES TO THE TABLE WITH OUR AWARDED GRANT "TABLE TALK TRUTH"

PICTURES INCLUDE: The board members of LIGHT and Penny Cole who presented Friday night at the annual LIGHTEN UP! 2019 meeting at Lighted Gardens in Ossian. The support, funding and opportunity to plan, create, bake and eat together as BHFM families has been a big blessing for our ministry. Thank YOU LIGHT!!!!

04/08/2019

THANK YOU FOR ORDERING OUR BHFM FAMILY TACO MEAL! NEXT FAMILY MEAL TO BE ADVERTISED THIS WEEK!!! STAY TUNED!!!

Following is a comment from one of the families who purchased....

Picked up my Taco Pie Meal kit from Brickhouse Family Ministries today. I love this organization that not only serves teens in crises but also helps to promote healthy families with a meal around the table. This kit was a great value, and included games and conversation starters. It’s a win for me, a delicious meal I can cook for my family, but I didn’t have to plan, Or shop for.

04/06/2019

BHFM wishes our dear friend and colleague Kevin Fiechter all the best as he ventures into a new position in home based services in Fort Wayne. Kevin has been an integral part of our BHFM team and will be greatly missed. Good luck Kevin. Seen here in our parting gift of a home made quilt and with some of the BHFM staff.

04/03/2019

BHFM FAMILY TACO MEAL KITS ARE READY FOR PICKUP AT THE FARM STORE THIS WEEK

Thank you to THE FAMILIES who ordered a Taco Meal kit. Each kit includes Brickhouse Farms Store hamburger, sweet potatoes, corn and Mexican Shredded Cheese.

Thank you SHOUT OUT to KROGERS IN BLUFFTON who donated chips, black beans, tomatoes, taco mix, onions and bell peppers.

Each kit includes an April prayer calendar for your family, conversation starters around the table, your TACO MEAL RECIPE and a game for the whole family to play.

If you did not order a kit, but would like the recipe, please look for it in the Brickhouse Farm Store.

Next Meal Kit to be advertised this week!!! $25.00 for an amazing meal to serve your family and enjoy each others company.

04/03/2019

A HEARTFELT MESSAGE FROM A FORMER RESIDENT ABOUT HIS DRUG ADDICTION

Most of my teenage years have been tainted by bad choices and substance abuse, ending with a life controlling he**in addiction. As
I’m writing this I have been a round a year and a half clean from everything. Now the question, is how do you first off get clean, and then stay clean? Anybody who has struggled with addiction knows it’s much easier said then done. But, there is an answer to this question, and it’s not as hard as you think. See the problem with these super expensive rehabs in California and Florida where you sit in hot tubs and get massages and smoke ci******es all day, is that you’re trying to clean something that really can’t be cleaned. Your flesh. Romans 6 talks all about sin. And Paul says in this chapter that we should die to the flesh like Christ died for us, and that we should NAIL ourselves to the cross like he did. Now what this means is giving our WHOLE life to Jesus. This isn’t saying just giving the parts to him that you want to give to him. It’s your whole life. But the great thing is, when you give your whole self to Jesus, and have faith in his word and seek him out, he will completely change your life and rebuild you into a new creation. Almost all of my friends have been in addiction. Some are successfully recovering and have been clean for years. Some are still using. And some have been recovering for a while, but went back to their old ways. The difference I have noticed is their relationship with Jesus. That’s the key, and I haven’t seen any exceptions.

2 Corinthians 5:17
“Anyone who belongs to Christ is a new person, the past is forgotten and everything is new”